A cheating husband and his lover drugged his wife with morphine - so he could find out if she was having an affair, a court heard.
Richard Gell, 42, planned to use his wife's fingerprint once she was knocked out to unlock her phone to see if she and another man had exchanged messages.
Prosecutors said that Gell's 30-year-old mistress Jessica Coote-Sellers got the drugs for him and the pair swapped messages while they doped the unsuspecting victim.
York Crown Court was told Gell drugged his wife's drink with an Oramorph tablet in August 2017 which "sent to her to sleep".
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